Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 2 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 3 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 4 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 5 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 6 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 7 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 8 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 9 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 10 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 11 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 12 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 13 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
| 14 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 15 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 16 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 17 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 18 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 19 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 20 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 21 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 22 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 23 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 24 | You would not have reached your present stage if you had been lacking in ability . |
| 25 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 26 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 27 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 28 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 29 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 30 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |